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Despite the fact that the calendar has just flipped over to September, here it’s still very much Summer. We’re in the desert. It’s Labor day weekend. It’s evening, around 5:30 or so, and it’s still at least 80 degrees. We have just dropped off the west side of Highway 12’s hogback; a narrow, windy, slip […]

Scott Peters, my friend and college roommate, held on to the wall with white fingertips straining against the slippery wet sandstone. My paddle was jammed under a boulder in the frothy foam just at the edge of the precipice, and we both looked over the edge into the dim chasm, misty with the spray of […]